 The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won .with so little innocent blood ? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed,...  The Land We Live in: Or, The Story of Our Country - Seite 191von Henry Mann - 1896 - 336 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...party to which Genet looked for sympathy. — Edward Everett. Rather than it [the French Revolution] should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than it is now. — Jefferson. The reception... | |
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